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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment features Nelson Pavlosky, one of the Co-Founders of Free Culture.org, a civil rights group in cyberspace. In this clip, Nelson explains that Diebold tried to hide the fact that memos pertaining to defects in the code that ran the voting machines in the very close US 2000 presidential election in Florida were defective. Since the source code was closed, there is no way... ( 2 reviews ) Topics: Nelson Pavlosky, Pavlosky, Nelson, Diebold, Diebold memos, FreeCulture.org, voting machines,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment, Nelson picks up mid-sentence from his previous segment. He then continuess on to discuss why it is that it is important to have open source code for voting machines. He tells the story of how the Internet community found key mistakes in Diebold's voting machines. Diebold was using decertified software in one state's elections. That fact was not discovered until... Topics: Nelson Pavlosky, Pavlosky, Diebold, 2000 US presidential election, California Recall of Governor...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment, Nelson picks up mid-sentence, so go back to segment _02 for the full context. After completing his last sentence, Nelson talks about companies who "fake" their product demos in presentations of those products to customers. Unfortunately, one of those fake demos occurred in a Diebold demonstration of its voting machines, according to the memos that Nelson... Topics: Pavlosky, Nelson, Nelson Pavlosky, Diebold, Bev Harris, Black Box Voting, 13,000 emails, infamous...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this very short segment, Nelson completes his analogy about Microsoft Windows being similar to a car with the hood welded shut. You can't fix Microsoft Windows yourself, and you can't go to the auto mechanic of your choice to get it fixed. Your only choice is to deal with Microsoft. Nelson says that some problems are minor, like a mere oil change, and wouldn't it be better to fix those... Topics: Nelson Pavlosky, Pavlosky, Microsoft Windows as a car with welded hood, freedom of choice of...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment, Nelson tells us that Diebold was upset with the memos being published on the Internet, because they wanted people to buy their voting machines, and the disclosure of the bugs in the memos threw a monkey wrench in their sales. Diebold admitted in court that they had brought their lawsuits against publishers of the memos as "the quickest way to get the memos... Topics: Nelson Pavlosky, Pavlosky, Nelson, DMCA, Digital Millenium CopyRight Act, voting machines,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment, Nelson finished his thought from segment 07, where dvgrab rudely cut him off. (joking). Nelson says that the name of his organization, FreeCulture.org, is an international student movement whose name was inspired by Richard Stallman's use of the term "free software" to describe shared source code. Nelson does a really good job in this video of tying the... Topics: Nelson Pavlosky, Pavlosky, Nelson, Free Culture, FreeCulture.org, Richard Stallman, Konqueror,...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment, Nelson talks about some of the other open source applications that are popular at colleges, and why they are popular. He says that GAIM is pretty popular. He says that it is is cross-platform and has tabbed IMing. He switched a friend to GAIM, even though there is no audio or video chat. The GIMP is another popular open source application. It doesn't have all of... Topics: Nelson Pavlosky, Pavlosky, scratch an itch, clunky interfaces, problems with open source, clunky...

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment, director Paul Donahue asks Nelson a really good question: what difference would it make for Diebold to have produced a voting machine with open source code? Nelson says that first of all, remember that open source software is not pixie dust, and is not going to solve all software problems. But, open source does let people inspect the code and debug it, so open... Topics: Nelson Pavlosky, Pavlosky, voting machines, elections, trust elections, voter turn out and trust,...